Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP stdlib allows a remote attacker to degrade availability by…
CVE-2026-59696
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP stdlib allows a remote attacker to degrade availability by supplying a URI whose port component is a very long run of digits. uristring:getport/1 passes the port substring to binarytointeger/1 with no length bound, catching only error:badarg, so a syntactically valid port of up to roughly 1.26 million digits converts successfully and costs the calling process hundreds of milliseconds of arbitrary-precision arithmetic. The conversion is reached from every authority-parsing path in uristring:parse/1, including the host, registered-name, and IPv4 and IPv6 forms. parse/1 is the documented interface for parsing URIs, so any application that parses an attacker-supplied URI is exposed without further configuration. The conversion function is documented to accept integers of any size, so bounding the input is the caller's responsibility. This issue affects OTP from OTP 21.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, OTP 28.5.0.6, and OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to stdlib from 3.5 before 6.2.2.5, 7.3.0.2, and 8.0.4.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.9 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- EPSS
- 0.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 1 September 2026
- Last updated
- 11 November 2026
- Assigner
- EEF
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-8qw4-2chm-mvj2
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-59696.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-59696
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/29a9dd0e17a97a3e6e46f0d08c6ba8f31db33f5e
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d700bf4ac94607cf7f00e53bbe4042d
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e3be1cfe9f6cedd0cd20d9905e05601dfb31c8aa
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